User Manual

PRESETS
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STAND-ALONE MIXER
Choose the Stand-alone mixer preset to use
Monitor 8 as a mixer. Doing so routes all physical
inputs to the mixer, with the mixer’s main mix bus
and monitor bus going to the Main Out and Aux
Out pairs. In addition, all inputs are fed to each Aux
bus pair (1-2, 3-4, etc.), which are in turn routed to
the six monitor groups A-F. This means that each
aux bus can serve as its own independent monitor
mix, with access to any/all inputs.
To control the mixer (with the AVB Control web
app), you have several options. You can connect a
computer to your MOTU AVB device using USB,
Ethernet, or Wi-Fi, as explained in “Setup for web
app control” on page 36. Figure 5-2 below shows
the Wi-Fi scenario. Note that you can control the
mix from multiple Wi-Fi devices.
Figure 5-2: Using Monitor 8 as a stand-alone mixer. This example
demonstrates how you can control the mixer from several Wi-Fi
devices.
INTERFACE + MIXER
Choose the Interface + Mixer preset to use
Monitor 8 as both an audio interface and mixer,
simultaneously. Doing so routes all physical inputs
and outputs to and from the computer, connected
through USB or AVB Ethernet. In addition, the
following audio sources are routed to the mixer,
which mixes them to the Main Mix bus, plus six
stereo aux busses for independent monitor mixes:
■ The Monitor 8’s eight analog inputs
■ The Monitor 8’s sixteen (or eight) ADAT inputs
■ Eight USB channels from the host computer
The Monitor bus is set up as a solo bus.
In this scenario, you can control the mixer from the
MOTU AVB Control web app running on the
computer. You can also run the web app from
wireless devices on the same Wi-Fi network as the
laptop.
Figure 5-3: Using Monitor 8 as an audio interface and mixer, simulta-
neously.
Airport
or any other Wi-Fi router
Ethernet
cable
Wi-Fi devices
Laptop (optional) Tablet Smart
phone
Local inputs plus network inputs
Main
Mix
Aux
Mix
Group
Mix 1
Group
Mix 2
Laptop
Audio inputs from stage, studio, etc.
Main
Mix
Aux
Mix 1
Aux
Mix 2